He stared at the menu on the website. “The Spice Route… permanently closed.” His usual calm demeanor was shattered. His chest tightened, making it difficult to breathe. He wanted to rip the computer apart, the digital words his personal tormentors.

This place was perfection, a symphony of flavors that would send him into bliss. It was the only restaurant he felt truly understood. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape the confines of his own home.

He let out a short, sharp bark of laughter. Then, he grabbed his keys and rushed to the door, ignoring the protests of his pounding heart.

Emotion: enraged

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -2.14 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.33

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enraged. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enraged stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enraged emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enraged vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
C0.555
est0.370
aggravated0.362
0.359
🤬0.345
Suppressed:
a-0.468
de-0.358
la-0.312
latter-0.287
☺️-0.285